"Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 07/06/06 08:41 AM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: What are the obvious hanging plot hooks? >Mm. I was under the impression that when Vlad visited the East, he did >so long before the events of /Phoenix/, which was why I suggested what >I did. Vlad talks about his trip out east in, (IIRC) /Dragon/, which means it's got to be pretty early on in his career. >If you are thinking that Vlad visited after those events, well, that's >a different pot of tuber soup. ==smirk== >Yet note that Vlad does remove the stone to teleport in /Athyra/, and >to do witchcraft. So even if the visit to the East was after >/Phoenix/, I think he would have briefly taken off the stone to get >out of jail free. Minor point: The gold phoenix stone is not in evidence during /Athyra/. He takes a black one off to teach Savn psionic communication, but when surprised by Loraan's men-at-arms, he teleports without removing any stones, ergo he cannot be in possession of a gold stone at this time. Presumably, he picked up a gold one at some point after this, but before /Issola/ when he apparently has one of each. Majikjon